IS ALWAYS ON THE JOB

NZ Truth, Issue 1228, 13 June 1929, Page 15

IS ALWAYS ON THE JOB

i : TF the undesirable element creeps' into A New Zealand trotting, there "is one man at least who endeavors to eradicate it. That man is F* J. Beer, one of the new stipendiary stewards operating :. m lightrharness circles. : - '! Aided^y athoi'ough knowledge of police procedure and an uncanny; gift -for getting on the scent of things,

Beer has done a 1 great amount of good work m cur-, tailing sharp practices > among riders aha drivers. "■.''. ; '. :; ■ He has learnt a lot about the ways of numerous trainers and wearers of silk, and is alive to the tricks they may attempt to put Into operation. During the pre- ;• sent season, Beer is a student of

'■■ horses, and has gained a first-nana knowledge of them, and what" they do .under certain circumstances. He realises that horses do not tell lies, and that every time thoy indulge m some -unorthodox stunt, it invariably Is on account Of some interference^